I think it's prime time for financial products and here is why

For three years I've been building wallet infrastructure at Openfort, helping apps embed self-custodial accounts for millions of users.

But every time I wanted to short a stock after earnings, trade tokenized TSLA, or get exposure to pre-IPO SpaceX, I hit the same wall: permissioned platforms, private markets, and someone else asking for my data.

And the fees? Let's talk about those.

Traditional banks charges €20 minimum per US trade — on a €1,000 position, that's 2% gone before the market even moves. Modern brokers gets you down to ~€4.50. Neobanks to ~€2.50. Better, but still death by a thousand cuts if you're an active trader with a small portfolio.

Over 50 trades a year at banks's rate, you're handing back €1,000 — your entire position size — just in fees. That's not investing. That's paying to play.

So we built Farao (Try here: https://getfarao.com).

It's a self-custodial trading app that lets you long or short stocks, crypto, pre-IPO shares, and indexes — up to 40x leverage, 24/7. Fund in USDC.

Our fee: 0.095% — under 1 basis point per trade.

On that same €1,000 position, that's €0.95. On 50 trades, it's €47.50 vs €1,000+ with a traditional broker.

No broker. No bank. No gatekeeper.

In our first month, beta traders opened positions on tokenized TSLA, gold, and pre-IPO SpaceX — all from their phones.

The old rails were built for institutions. Farao was built for everyone else.